a handbook of the mosquitoes of north america - Systematic Catalog ...

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adults are blood thirsty but rarely leave the shaded woods.
Beyer records them as driving cattle from woodlands by their
attacks.
AEDES TORMENTOR Dyar and Knab
Aedes tormentor Dyar and Knab, Jour. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 14,
191. 1906.
Female. Proboscis slender, brown. Occiput brown, a median
line of silvery scales, brown at the sides and yellowish-white on the
cheeks; nape and sides with erect, forked, brown scales. Mesonotum
brown, a median broad stripe of silvery white scales, the rest with
golden brown scales. Abdomen black with lateral white spots; venter
yellowish-white scaled. Legs brown with bronzy reflections. Wing
scales narrow, dark.
MaEe hypopygium. “Side-piece long, narrow, rounded at tip;
apical lobe narrow, projecting, with only a few small setae; basal
lobe slender, finger-shaped, with few but rather long setae only near
the tip; spine near base of the lobe on a short stem. Claspette with
long, slender, flexuous stem; filament short, rather stout, lined.
Clasper long, narrowed at base and tip, with long terminal spine.
Tenth sternites slender, chitinized and infuscated at tip, rounded.
Ninth tergites small, longer than wide, with about five short coarse
setae irregularly distributed.” (Dyar, 1928.)
Larva. “Head rounded, bulging on the sides; head hairs single,
anteantennal tuft multiple. Antennae rather long, spinulated, a tuft
at middle. Lateral comb of the eighth segment of about nine scales
in a straight row. Air-tube about two and a half times as long as
wide, the pecten reaching three-fourths the length of the tube, in-
closing a small four-haired tuft. Anal segment ringed by the plate,
the brush posterior ; dorsal tuft a long hair and brush on each side;
lateral hair single, small. Anal gills rather longer than the segment,
tapered.” (Dyar, 1928.)
Aedes tormentor is distributed from Florida to Arkansas.
It can be separated from A. a.tZmticu.s only in the larval stage,
and in the adult by a study of the male hypopygium. Very
little is known about the species or its habtits.
AEDES MITCHELLZE Dyar
Culex nzitchellae Dyar, Jour. N.Y. Ent. Sot., 13, 74. 1905.
FernaLe. Length 3.5 mm. ; wing 3 mm. Proboscis slender, black,
with a broad white ring at the middle. Occiput with silvery scales